Re: First day of online sprint

[Matus Kalas <Matus.Kalas@uib.no>]

Hi all,

And big thanks for the daily summary Andreas!! I highly appreciate the 
contributions of this Sprint.

I'm personally too overloaded with other work at the moment :/ But if 
you decide on an "everyone meets" timeslot e.g. on Saturday, I'll very 
gladly join to say hi.

A quick status update from the ELIXIR/"metadata" side:
The Debian-ELIXIR(&SciCrunch) collaboration is gaining general 
recognition, what's very nice to see. All thanks to the hard work of 
many of you folks, the main Debian Med contributors!
To offer at least something small back to the Debian community, we 
explicitly included a deliverable in the commissioned ELIXIR 
Infrastructure Service "Tools Ecosystem" (2021-2023), that will feed the 
upstream "tools metadata" updates (incl. EDAM) to Debian packages. It'll 
be up to you in which form; e.g. auto-generated merge requests to Salsa, 
to be reviewed by the package maintainers? (no need to decide yet)

If anything pops up during this sprint related to "upstream metadata" 
(bio.tools, SciCrunch, EDAM, ...) where I could chip in, please ping me 
on email or if/when I manage to show up, and I'll find some time.

All the best, have a great Sprint, and see you later ;)
Matus


On 2021-02-18 21:31, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> just a short notice about the sprint today.  We have established a
> new communitcation channel:
>
>     https://app.element.io/#/room/#debian-med:matrix.org
>
> Please join us on matrix if you consider instant messaging a sensible
> enhancement for your workflow.
>
> Regarding the sprint itself:  I admit I had hoped to more attendees but
> it seems people do not take one or two days off if the sprint is "only"
> from home.  If you need to book a plane and travel to some place that 
> is
> different.  Those who joined did some valuable contributoins reaching
> from very generic stuff (Étienne worked on libzstd and now has a
> changelog entry on every Debian 10 entry installation ;-)) via fixing
> several cross-build issues (Nilesh) and other things.  I for myself
> concentrated a bit on BioConductor issues and kept on hunting not yet
> migrated packages.
>
> I'd be super happy to see more people tomorrow.
>
> Kind regards
>
>      Andreas.
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 06:06:18PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi friends of Debian Med,
> >
> > this will be our first online sprint.  I will miss you all in person 
> > but
> > lets make the best out of it - hopefully meeting people who never made
> > it to any sprint due to the big effort to travel.
> >
> > I've just created a Wiki page
> >
> >    
> > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/sprints/-/wikis/202102_debian-med_sprint_online
> >
> > to provide those information that came up to my mind which should be
> > relevant for attendees.  Feel free to add whatever you consider
> > important for the attendees.
> >
> > I added some long term contributors explicitly to CC of this mail as a
> > kind invitation that their contribution was and is always welcome -
> > during the sprint as well as later on.
> >
> > I explicitly like to mention Charles Plessy and Afif Elghraoui who 
> > both
> > seem to have drifted away a bit from the team to do other tasks.  I 
> > also
> > would love to talk to Laszlo Kajan just to meet again but also about 
> > the
> > future of Rostlab software (we remain with outdated unmaintainable 
> > code
> > and are missing newer software).
> >
> > Everybody is welcome to join - preferably newcomers since every sprint
> > brought new people to the project and I'm hoping to be able to 
> > continue
> > with this success.
> >
> > I'm looking forward a lot to meet you all online, enjoy the hacking
> > time, profit from the time we saved to travel and use it to write more
> > code (just to focus on the bright side of the reason to meet only
> > online) and save the environment some extra flight miles.
> >
> > See you
> >
> >      Andreas.
> >
> > --
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>
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